This deposit contains the Official Record from 1922 - 1971, circulars from 1969 to 1989 and official lists from 1952 - 1954.

This deposit contains member files and an incomplete set of circulars to members from 1974 - 1988.

Minutes of the Bunbury Lumpers’ Union of Workers and the Waterside Workers' Federation Bunbury Branch, 1901-1942; Bunbury Lumpers’ Union of Workers rules, 1902 and photograph of members, c. 1902; records of accident and relief money payments, 1901-1927.

This deposit contains some of the records of the bodies that preceded the Musicians' Union of Australia including minutes (1899-1907) of the Professional Orchestral Benefit Association, later the Professional Musicians' Association of Australasia, minutes (1929-1935) and a book of programs (1910-1923) for the Professional Musicians' Band and minutes of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Committee (1908-1910). There are minutes for the Musicians' Union of Australia (1911-1941) as well as cash books, members lists and arbitration material.

This deposit includes minutes of the Federal sub-committee meetings (1965-1969), Federal Office papers, correspondence, awards and agreements, and publications.

Microfilm copy of Executive Committee minutes (1890-1966) and general meetings (1935-1959) including indexes, reports, rules and other material. Also includes rules of Federated Moulders (Metals) Union of Australasia, NSW District and minutes of meetings of the Eight Hour System and General Short Hour League (1869-1871).

Minutes of South Australian Branch meetings, 1950-1960; correspondence with Federal Secretary, 1950-1958; circulars, 1951-1960; arbitration material, 1950-1965; other Branch material; copies of minutes from Sydney and Melbourne, 1938-1946, 1950-1957; correspondence with South Australian Branch Secretary, 1939-1941, 1943-1945; printed material.

Subject files and office files, copies of minutes, correspondence, agenda and reports, industry material, policy documents, press releases and published material.

Minutes, correspondence, attendance book and membership records, financial records, contribution and rule books.

Copies of minutes and other papers of Federal Council meetings (1937-1959), correspondence, rules, arbitration material and South Australian Branch Mortality Fund book (1928-1960).

Minutes of the Canberra Branch of the AJA (1941-1981), Minutes of the Federal Industrial Committee, Management Committee, Executive and Council and the Trades and Labour Council (1967-1986), Minutes of the AJA House Committee Department of Information Canberra and the Public Service Section Committee (1948-1969), Financial Records (1943-1980), Office Files (1953-1989), Printed material (1953-1987), Circulars and memos (indexed, 1958-1989), Serials (1958-1985), Membership records (1945-1984), Transripts, Determinations and Awards (1944-1986, Papers relating to CSIRO Sep Negotiations (1990), papers relating to the Federal Police Case heard in the Industrial Relations Commission (1990) and photographs (1950s-1960s).

Federal Council, Central Committee and Executive minutes (1911-1974), Federal Executive reports and balance sheets (1944-1970), General Secretary's letter books (1910-1914), office files (1911-1974), industrial binders (1965-1980), Federal circulars memos (1917-1939, 1971), arbitration transcripts (1911-1969), AJA History (1910-1913), photographs and printed material. Also includes a minute book for the Northern NSW Sub-District (1913-1926).

Minutes including those of the Executive, Disputes Committee and joint meetings with other bodies (1917-1973), and the Southern Tasmania Eight Hours Committee (1920-1938).

Records of the Workwatch Occupational Health and Safety Training Centre including minutes,reports, correspondence, financial records, training course material and printed material.

Minute books of NSW Branch General and Special meetings, 1916-1929; minute books of Executive Council and Federal Council meetings, 1915-1952

Microfilm copy of minutes of Committee of Management meetings, 7 Feb 1902 - 27 Oct 1921.

Correspondence, subject files, arbitration material, case files, manuals, and printed material.

Minutes of general, special and annual meetings of the Federal Executive, correspondence, arbitration files, reports, pamphlets and circulars.

This deposit contains records created by A Amos in his capacity as a union official of the Stovemakers' Union 1937-45, Sheet Metal Workers' Union 1945-72, AMWU 1972-76, AMWSU 1976-77. Correspondence, membership registers, office files, conference proceedings, research files and printed material, international publications, records of the AMWSU Women's Committee, Sydney District including minutes, financial records, scrap book of cuttings and photographs.

Investment circulars from stockbrokers to clients.

Minute books, balance sheets (includes register of members, mortality fee level and registration record), subscription and levy books. Includes records of predecessor the Barrier Typographical Society.

Minutes of general meetings and the Committee of Management of the Victorian Branch.

Federal registration file (1923), subject files arranged by airline, administrative files including minutes, conference papers and arbitration material, membership lists (1985), rules, and printed material.

This deposit consists of pamphlets including The Teachers' Tribunal and Staffing Crisis in Victorian Secondary Schools.

This deposit includes secretary's correspondence 1929 - 1944, a cash book (1931 - 1936), draft articles on education matters (1943 - 1949), photographs (1926 - 1931) and printed materials (1937 - 1968).

Minute books (1958-1964), correspondence including financial reports and membership lists, rules, proceedings of conferences (1952-1965), arbitration material, reports, circulars and printed material. Also includes copies of minutes of the High Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations (1952-1966).

Minutes of Queensland Branch (1950-1962), correspondence, annual and financial reports, membership register, rules, papers of conferences (1952-1959) and printed material.

Minutes of the Queensland branch (1937-1954, 1959-1965), arbitration material, correspondence and 1959 conference papers.

Minutes of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victorian and Western Australian Branches (1969-1972), reports, conference papers (1943-1970), subject files, arbitration material, photographs of working conditions, and printed material. Also includes J S Baker's papers as member of Federal Executive of the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations and of Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and files relating to the 1971 Union Festival of Arts in Melbourne.

Copies of minutes of the Executive Council (1967-1974), officers register, rules, General Secretary's files (JS Baker, then W Rowling) including correspondence, reports, minutes, arbitration material and photographs of Baker's trip to USSR, five photographs of Baker and Queensland Branch, files relating to Baker's role as Publicity Officer for NSW Division of the Australian Council for Salaried and Professional Associations including Federal Executive and NSW Division minutes, minutes of High Council of Commonwealth Public Service Organisations, and printed material.

Minutes of the Victorian Branch of the Fourth Division Postmasters, Postal Clerks and Telegraphists' Union (1959-1967) and of the Victorian Branch of the Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists (1967-1980), minutes of annual general meetings of the Australian Third Division Telegraphists' and Postal Workers' Union, then Union of Postal Clerks and Telegraphists (1950-1970), minutes of the Victorian State Committee of Management (1980-1990), copies of meeting agendas, conference papers, Victorian Branch newsletters and printed material.

Circulars, reports and submissions to 1973 Australian Post Office Commission of Inquiry and printed material.

Minute books, correspondence, financial records and a history of the union (1858 - 1958).

Minutes of the Reform Group (1981-1985) and subject files (1976-1985) including a history of the group written by Peter Ellett, one of its founders, and later material about the Public Service Union Action Group (1990-1993). The Reform Group operated at both branch and Federal level and stood rank-and-file progressive candidates in union elections against conservative incumbents, alleged to be supported by the National Civic Council. Also includes a history of the Postmaster-General's Department/Telecom sub-branch delegates' committee covering 1935-1966.

Correspondence, circulars, pamphlets, leaflets, photographs and documents related to TW Wright, Secretary of the New South Wales Branch and Federal President of the Sheet Metal Workers Union, various national and international organisations.

Correspondence, circulars, minutes, receipt book registers and printed material. Includes records of TW Wright, Secretary of the NSW Branch from February 1936 and Federal President from 1942-1972.

Minutes of annual conferences and Council meetings and financial and other reports.

This deposit includes constitutions (1974 - 1979), conference minutes and related papers (1964 - 1982), executive committee papers (1977 - 1984), and correspondence (1971 - 1982).

Minutes of the Brickmakers and Clayworkers Employees' Union (1901-1929), the Federal Council of the Federated Brick, Tile and Pottery Workers' Union (1912-1925), the New South Wales Branch of the Federated Brick, Tile and Pottery Workers' Union (1926-1973) and of the Northumberland and Lithgow Branches, files relating to yards and employers, award files, photographs and printed material.

Printed posters produced by the Construction and General Division, National Office or New South Wales Branch or the Building Trades Group of Unions relating to occupational health and safety issues, workers' rights, the C+Bus superannuation scheme and other issues.

Minutes of meetings of the Board of Conciliation composed of members of employers and employees in the boot trade, 1886-1892, minutes of general special and committee meetings of the South Australian branch of the Australian Boot Trade Employees' Federation, 1920-1954, minutes of management committee meetings 1927-1939, other minutes relating to the boot trade in South Australia 1905-1948, correspondence received and copies of replies sent by the Secretary of the South Australian branch from all branches and Federal Council and other miscellaneous correspondence 1905-1930, Secretary's cash book 1919-1924, claims for mortality allowances 1941-1960, roll of members 1906-1953, transfer arbitration material 1904-1944, miscellaneous rule books, printed material and photographs.

Correspondence, arbitration and financial records, membership records, reports and publications. Includes correspondence records of predecessor the South Australian Locomotive Engine Drivers and Firemen's Association.

Minutes of general meetings and meetings of the management committee (1928-1952), cashbooks (1928-1954), award and award variations made by the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration (1940s-1950s), logs of claims (1946, 1949, c. 1952), rule book (c. 1940), Launceston trade union directory (1931, 1934), and printed material include including a Short History of British Trade Unionism (1947) and Sweden's Cotton Industry (1949).

Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia records mainly from 1992 to 2005, including unfair dismissal cases (employees name and firm listed), textile awards, liquidation records of businesses, skill level dispute (1994), enterprise bargaining and agreement, industrial relations, wage increases (a history of, 1974-1979), occupational health and safety, equal employment (item 735), redundancy, education, disputes, campaigns (including tariff and outworker campaigns), work cover, mortality fund correspondence (2000-2002), clothing and trade awards (1926-1998) and audiovisual material. There are also some records from preceding unions, the Australian Textile Workers' Union, Australian Boot Trades Employees' Federation (Victorian Branch) and Clothing and Allied Trades Union of Australia (Federal Council). There are also records of the Apparel Trades of Australia (1980s).

Federation of College Academics: minutes of Council (1973-1975), NSW Council (1984-1989) and committees, subject files about conditions of employment and NSW Colleges of Advanced Education; Union of College Academics: NSW Branch minutes (1987-1990) and correspondence; University Academic Staff Association (NSW Division of the Federated Australian University Staff Association): minutes of Executive and Council (1979-1989), correspondence and subject files; Academics' Union of New South Wales: Council minutes (1989-1990).

Records include minutes of Central, Southern, Wynyard and Devonport branches; minutes of the federal executive and Australian Council of AFULE; agendas and reports, correspondence, financial records, press cuttings, membership records, arbitration material, rules, and a copy of the certificate of registration. The deposit also contains reports and balance sheets relating to the Australian Locomotive Enginemen's Newspaper Co Pty Ltd, and records of predecessor the Tasmanian Division of the Federated Locomotive Engine Drivers, Firemen and Cleaners' Association of Australia.

Papers of President, Keith Fordyce, including minutes, correspondence, reports, arbitration material, papers relating to electrification of suburban area railways (Brisbane) and printed material .

This deposit contains files, transparencies, negatives, glass plates and prints.

One file containing maps, correspondence, leases and court documents.

Office files containing correspondence, arbitration and financial records, state conference papers, membership records, publications and records relating to Wallaroo, Gawler, Gladstone, Mount Gambier, Naracoorte, Peterborough, Port Adelaide, Port Lincoln, Port Pirie, Tailem Bend, Terowie and Snowtown Sub-Branches.

Financial records of membership and mortality fund with an alphabetical index of names in the first volume for each calendar year.

Australian Boot Trade Employees' Federation, Tasmanian Branch was also known as the Hobart Sub-Branch of the Victorian Branch, or the Hobart Division the Hobart Branch as well as the Tasmanian Branch. Minutes (1913-1950), correspondence, financial and membership records (1909-1963), determinations of the Hobart Sub-Branch (1926-1930), claims for mortality (funeral) allowances (1917-1951, 1955-1961), and minutes of the Federal Council and Federal Executive (1927-1937)

Correspondence received by the General Secretary of the Clothing and Allied Trades Union of Australia from P.J. Sheehan concerning the Clothing Trades (1957) Award.

Four volumes of applications and correspondence relating to requests from companies to be listed on the official lists of the Stock Exchange of Melbourne.

The framed documents and images were displayed in public spaces and meeting rooms at the Australian National University.

The plans and reports mostly relate to civil defence and transport issues in the Northern Territory, Cape York and the Kimberley and Pilbara areas of Western Australia.

This series has not been processed yet.

This deposit has not yet been processed.

This deposit has been arranged into five series: Awards, Communications, Governance, Publications and Subject files.
Awards series contains copies of published awards, 1902 - 1991, and may be annotated (for logs of claims, disputes, renegotiations or amendments to awards, see Subject files).
Communications series contains circulars, memoranda and letters sent out to inform and update members on current topics. Often meeting notices and extracts from minutes are included. Commonwealth Steamship Owners Association (CSOA) circulars, 1960 - 1995; COSA memoranda, 1986 - 1989; CSOA letters, 1960 - 1987; Australasian Steamship Owners Federation (ASOF) circulars, 1960 - 1988; ASOF letters, 1960 - 1972; Tug Operators Committee (TOC) circulars, 1971 - 1995; TOC letters, memoranda and minutes, 1980 - 1995; Australian National Maritime Association (ANMA) circulars, 1986 - 1990; ANMA memoranda, 1987 - 1994; Australian Shipowners Industrial Association (ASIA) circulars, 1994 - 1995; ASIA memoranda and letters, 1994 - 1995; Australian Shipowners Association (ASA) memoranda, 1996 - 2001; ASA circulars, 1997; National Maritime Industry Training Council Inc. (NMITC) memoranda and letters, 1989 - 1992.
Governance series contains Board memoranda, meeting papers, membership, constitutions and annual reports for governing bodies and sub-committees. ASOF Federation Protection and Indemnity Scheme (FPIS) minute book no. 1, 1920 - 1930;
ASOF meeting papers, 1954 - 1985; ASOF membership, 1951 - 1988; ASOF minute book no. 38, 1983 - 1988; ASOF photograph album, c. 1897; CSOA minute books 1958 - 1967 and 1967 - 1977; CSOA annual reports, 1989 - 1993; CSOA rules and membership, 1952 - 1991; TOC meeting papers, 1971 - 1990; ANMA meeting papers and annual reports, 1986 - 1996; ASIA meeting papers, 1994-1995; ASA meeting papers, Board and Members memoranda, 1996 - 2002.
Publications series contains collected books and reports from the MIAL library, some published by MIAL or predecessors, related to the maritime industry, 1912 - 2000.
Subject files, the largest and broadest series, contains correspondence, circulars, memoranda, reports, drafts and rough notes and court or arbitration commission transcripts of proceedings related to numerous maritime topics. This series includes items originally referred to as Case Files. Topics include: awards, conferences, related unions and companies, disputes, Basic Wage Case, National Wage Case and Waterfront industry reform.

Secretary's Report for First Annual General Meeting of the Kensington Women's Branch, United Australia Party; press cuttings mainly concerning the Women's Loyalty League of NSW; photograph of an unidentified group.

The interviews were conducted by Humphrey McQueen as part of a University of Sydney oral history project for the Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training, while he was researching and writing his publications 'Framework of Flesh: Builders' Labourers Battle for Health and Safety' (2009) and 'We Built this Country: Builders' Labourers and their Unions, 1787 to the Future' (2011). The participants were union officials in the Builders' Labourers' Federation (BLF), the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) and in one case, the Royal Australian Nursing Federation. Most were recorded on Sony minidisc. There is also a recording on DVD of a talk given by McQueen to a seminar in November 2005.

Minutes of inaugural and annual general meetings, files of council and executive members, branches and committees records, editors' and managing editors' records, special interest groups records, records relating to the Lindeberg Grievance (Heiner Affair), conference papers, posters, banners, badge and publications. Includes records of predecessor the Archives Section of the Library Association of Australia.

Vietnam War; Vietnamese Art

These posters, calendars and artworks were collected over the course of David Marr’s career. There are a mix of prints and originals from the 1930s to the mid 1990s. They largely focus on the Indochina Wars - particularlry the Vietnam War - and the politics of Vietnam during that time but the series also includes art and folk art not specifically related to these topics as well as material focusing on Laos, Cambodia and other regions. The perspectives of the material is mixed, work coming from North and South Vietnam, Europe (mostly France and Russia), Australia and The United States. The series contains examples of propaganda, fine art, children’s art, promotional material for private, not-for-profit and academic organisations and events, educational material, work related to charity and foreign-aid and material discussing war crimes.

Some material in this collection contains accounts of torture and images of injuries.

This small series of files relates to Sir Allen Brown's membership of the Councils of the Canberra University College and the Australian National University. The papers show his involvement in the establishment in the School of Oriental Languages and other issues and are held in Prime Minister's Department file covers. There are also a small number of papers of Sir John Bunting and Edmund Foxcroft who were later members of the ANU Council. Sir John Bunting succeeded Sir Allen Brown as Secretary of the Prime Minister's Department.

This series has not yet been processed.

To be determined

Negatives, photographs, and contact sheets of areas in Papua New Guinea. Areas include: Western District, Nomad River, Great Papuan Plateau, Min of the Star Mountains, Southern Highlands District, Huri, and Nembi. The items are divided into 10 folders, dates if not provided) are 1963-1965, with folder 1: Kiunga to Nomad River, including a patrol post and airstrip; folder 2 and 3: Biami villages on the plateau (Nomad River); folder 4: Lavani Valley Muller Range, Burnett River and other locations on journey from Tari; folder 5: The Min of Olsobip and the mountains; folder 6: Seltamin of Strickland River and the mountains; folder 7: The Min of Olsobip and the mountains; folder 8: Olsobip, Telefomin, the Men of Olsobip and the mountains; folder 9: Huri, Southern Highlands 1957-1962; folder 10: Nembi, Southern Highlands, 1961.

These records have not yet been processed. Correspondence, newsletters contact lists, circulars and papers from the Electrical Trades Union New South Wales branch New Blood Group, a rank and file campaign group. ACTU Congress papers from 1981, 1985, 1987 and 1989. Includes photographs of candidates, posters, pamphlets and newspaper clippings.